Tired Thistles

Very interesting moody picture, Gail! PDE

Absolutely lovely, Gail. The precise focusing, DOF and attention to detail was critical here and you nailed it. Nice to see some of the old guard return at least for a while. This new version of PN is a far cry from what we had before but at least it's serviceable. What we really need to do is rebuild the community which was fractured by the changeover. Even I was away for six months in disgust but the simple fact is that there's nowhere else to go.

Thank you so much Pierre and of course Jack. You are right - there is no other site that I have found that has the sense of mutual respect of each other and of course the friendships forged here seem to bring us back - it is comforting and familiar in a world that is almost totally opposite. Thanks Jack !

The thistles are interesting but the corresponding background, also quite tired and old, speaks of times past.

Thank you Greg for your thoughtful remarks presented. I appreciate your feedback.

Thanks for the comment! This one is beautiful as always! I'm doing fine. You don't seem to be terribly active here either. I've been mostly on Instagram for a while. Experimenting with actual photo-sharing sites, though. 500px seems the best, but they are broken a lot.